Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@...> posted
20080417195145.GJ31409@..., excerpted below, on  Thu, 17 Apr 2008
21:51:45 +0200:

> I don't know very much about KDE stuff, since I got rid of it for a long
> time, but IMHO it seems there's an principle problem on the install
> layout - 3.x and 4.x should be completely separate, never conflicting
> each other. So some package kfoo either depends on kdelibfoo-3.x OR
> kdelibfoo-4.x.
> 
> Of course I don't know whether the problems comes from ebuilds or
> upstream ;-o

The problem is simply older versions of kde-3 ebuilds.  Newer versions 
have the plumbing necessary to keep v3 and v4 separate, but older 
versions didn't.  So those blocks are on the older versions that didn't.  
By the time kde4 stabilizes (quite some time as a qualified upstream 
version isn't released yet, current kde4 will never stabilize), the newer 
kde3 ebuilds should have been stable for some time, so the blocks are 
there just in case someone has a real outdated kde3 system and tries to 
install kde4 as well.  If they are going to keep their kde3, they'll need 
to update it first, to the ebuilds that handle things correctly.

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